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Join Lynne Hilton Wilson for an insightful discussion on the women of Samuel and 1 Kings, including Bathsheba’s story of seduction, abuse of power, and tragedy surrounding David’s actions. This episode also explores the difficult questions surrounding plural marriage in the lives of David and Solomon, examining the historical, cultural, and spiritual context of these Old Testament accounts. Discover deeper perspectives on faith, agency, leadership, and the consequences of choices in the lives of Israel’s kings and the women affected by them.

How do you define yourself? How do you see yourself?

We all live in boxes. Inside your box is the stuff and circumstances of your life. All you know and believe, all your experiences, your community and neighborhood, city, town, and country, your church, titles and education, the relationships of your life, and you are all inside that box.

From the outside, most boxes look alike, but when you see what is inside, no two boxes are the same. They are all quite similar and yet very different. They are all boxes, but they all hold different stuff.

Your box is your world. But it is not the whole world. How you see yourself is monumentally important, but almost always, you see yourself within your box, and that is a mistake.

Occasionally, someone stands up and looks outside his box. He looks up and beyond his box. He sees more; he catches a glimpse of another Way, the only Way to fulfill his divine potential, the only true standard, the One Thing.

“What manner of men (and women) ought ye to be?” Christ is the model. That is the paradigm. Think outside the box.

Otherwise, you will rise no higher than the best of your box, which is far less than your true potential.

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Step into one of the most dramatic and transformative periods in the Old Testament as Lynne Hilton Wilson explores 1 Samuel 17 through 2 Samuel 7. In this episode, we examine the legendary confrontation between David and Goliath, the fall of Saul, and the rise of David from shepherd boy to king of Israel.

What can we learn from the women who shaped these events—often quietly, courageously, and faithfully behind the scenes? Dr. Wilson highlights the influence of figures such as Michal, Abigail, Bathsheba, and other women whose stories illuminate covenant faithfulness, wisdom, political courage, and spiritual strength during a turbulent era in Israel’s history.
This episode also explores:
• David’s faith in confronting Goliath
• The contrast between Saul and David’s leadership
• Covenant relationships and kingship in ancient Israel
• The role of women in preserving families, kingdoms, and Faith
• Messianic themes and covenant promises in 2 Samuel 7
• Insights from Hebrew culture, history, and scripture scholarship

In the last episode, we partially answered the question we should all answer from time to time, “Who am I?” Today, we will consider additional aspects of your identity, particularly who you were before this life.

To whatever extent good and evil were present in our first estate, one thing is clear, nothing then and there compares to the prevalence and extremes of good and evil here. For the first time ever, we are out of the presence of God, on our own, without memory of Him. For the first time ever, we are clothed with a physical body. Satan and his minions roam freely and are having their way with the world.

While great wickedness is scattered across the face of the earth, this is also where God sent the “noble and great ones” from among His children. Abraham said: “Now, the Lord had shown unto me, Abraham, the intelligences that were organized before the world was; and among all these there were many of the noble and great ones;

Are you among those noble and great ones to be the Lord’s rulers?